Associate Software Engineer

Denali Therapeutics • South San Francisco, CA

77d • $105,000 - $141,000

About The Position

Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the largest medical challenges of our time. Denali Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to developing breakthrough therapies for neurodegenerative diseases through our deep commitment to degeneration biology and principles of translational medicine. Denali is founded on the collaboration of leading scientists, industry experts, and investors who share the vision that scientific discovery energetically applied to translational medicine is the key to delivering effective therapies to patients. We invite you to consider an opportunity with Denali to help achieve our goal of delivering meaningful therapeutics to patients. This role is responsible for developing and managing scientific data solutions leveraging commercial and custom software tools to enable the capture, management, and integration of scientific data. The role involves close collaboration with laboratory scientists, software engineers, and external partners to facilitate data capture & maximize its usefulness in the R&D process.

Requirements

• Bachelor's with 3+ years relevant experience.
• Experience in a Pharmaceutical/Industrial chemistry/Biotech environment and in working with LIMS, ELN, laboratory informatics projects, and/or scientific software development.
• Familiarity with common lab workflows and data management needs, and the ability to collaborate with scientists to understand and support their processes. Hands-on lab experience is a plus, but not required.
• Track record of successfully delivering laboratory informatics solutions to address scientific data challenges and applying modern software engineering practices to deliver applications and/or scientific data analyses.
• Experience developing and maintaining software applications or tools that are reliable, well-documented, and designed for ongoing use by others (this may come from professional software roles, research informatics, or building substantial tools in a lab setting).
• Proficiency in web application development, especially using Python (Django) and SQL, as well as familiarity with software engineering practices such as version control, code review, and testing are essential.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with cloud services, particularly AWS (e.g. EC2, ECS, and S3) and containerized environments (Docker) are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain reliable software tools for R&D functions that accelerate & improve research processes and nudge scientists to adhere to best practices.
• Configure and maintain Denali's lab information management solutions, the Dotmatics and Benchling suites.
• Develop and customize informatics solutions for Denali's functions, including protein and oligonucleotide therapeutics, by capturing, retrieving molecular properties along with associated experimental data.
• Collaborate with a wide range of partners, including scientists, software developers, IT, and other stakeholders to deliver right-sized solutions. Maintain and improve existing tools, and contribute to long-term standardization efforts.
• Provide training, documentation, troubleshooting, and support to ensure adoption and proper use of all tools and systems managed by the team.
• Be a champion for scientific data quality.

Benefits

• 401k
• healthcare coverage
• ESPP
• broad range of other benefits

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees